Alternative Client

[theTrav]

WHAT? No Mac! Noooo! That looked so great.. *sniff*

argh.

It's a java app and is therefore not tied to a specific OS, merely a VM.

the Jogl libraries for mac are available here:
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/bui ... sx-ppc.zip
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/bui ... versal.zip

No idea what the difference between ppc and universal is, you can work that out yourself. If you're running solaris or bsd or any other crazy assed OS that I haven't included you can find the libraries yourself

[loftar]

No idea what the difference between ppc and universal is, you can work that out yourself.

"Universal" uses the Mach-O object file format that OSX uses (yes, it's a Unix variant but doesn't use ELF!) to package both PPC and Intel object code into the same file. It's an immensely useful feature that I wish that ELF could share. It would be very useful when using the same NFS server for machines of different architectures, such as I do.

If you're running solaris or bsd or any other crazy assed OS that I haven't included you can find the libraries yourself

I use Plan9 on one machine and QNX on another! Give me one!

[bajuba]

I like the part about chat windows in outside of the frame, I was wondering if you could do the same with map windows? The map windows are large and take up a lot of screen, it would be a lot easier to map if I could have it open outside of the H&H frame. Thanks.

[theTrav]

I like the part about chat windows in outside of the frame, I was wondering if you could do the same with map windows? The map windows are large and take up a lot of screen, it would be a lot easier to map if I could have it open outside of the H&H frame. Thanks.

My eventual goal is to move all widgets outside of the main H&H view frame.

I think flower menus would stay in and that's about it. Everything else just obscured viewable area un-necessarily

[bajuba]

I like the part about chat windows in outside of the frame, I was wondering if you could do the same with map windows? The map windows are large and take up a lot of screen, it would be a lot easier to map if I could have it open outside of the H&H frame. Thanks.

My eventual goal is to move all widgets outside of the main H&H view frame.

I think flower menus would stay in and that's about it. Everything else just obscured viewable area un-necessarily

awesome!

[Onionfighter]

So, since much of what Thetrav and Loftar say is foreign to me, I used these instructions to get the ant thing running:

http://omrudi.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/ ... indows-xp/

From there, I followed the rest of the instructions, couldn't find a run.bat file, but by clicking on Haven.jar, it seemed to start the client. Unfortunately, when I try to log on I get the error: refused connection: connect, which I don't get when running the standard client.

[loftar]

FYI, theTrav (and anyone else building a custom client), I've made a separate JNLP file for haven-res.jar, so it should now be possible and easy for you to make a JNLP launcher for your client. If you just publish your compiled haven.jar on Github's download section, you should be able to put a JNLP file next to it that looks like this (copied and slightly modified from my own version):

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://github.com/thetrav/haven-client/downloads/" href="haven.jnlp">
  <information>
    <title>Haven and Hearth (Trav's Extendo)</title>
    <vendor>theTrav Custom Software Inc.</vendor>
    <homepage href="http://www.havenandhearth.com/" />
    <description>The Haven game</description>
    <shortcut online="false">
      <desktop />
      <menu submenu="Haven and Hearth" />
    </shortcut>
  </information>
  <security>
    <all-permissions />
  </security>
  <resources>
    <j2se version="1.5+" max-heap-size="256M" />
    <jar href="haven.jar" />
    <property name="haven.errorhandler" value="on" />
    <property name="haven.defserv" value="sh.seatribe.se" />
    <property name="haven.fullscreen" value="off" />
    <extension name="jogl" href="http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/haven-res.jnlp" />
    <extension name="jogl" href="http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/jogl/jogl.jnlp" />
  </resources>
  <application-desc />
</jnlp>

Note that the jnlp/information/title tag is what names the start menu item on Windows, so it's useful to give it some meaningful distinguisher from name of the official client.

EDIT: The things you should have to replace if you're not theTrav is the codebase attribute of the jnlp tag itself, and the jnlp/information/title tag. Everything else should at least kinda sorta work if you haven't made any other changes.

[theTrav]

couldn't find a run.bat file, but by clicking on Haven.jar, it seemed to start the client. Unfortunately, when I try to log on I get the error: refused connection: connect, which I don't get when running the standard client.

The run.bat should be in the build folder (the ant target copies it from etc) and should have the following contents:

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java -Dhaven.authserv=sh.seatribe.se -Dhaven.defserv=sh.seatribe.se -jar haven.jar

those two -D arguments are the reason your double clicking the jar doesn't work... They are necessary.

In hind sight I should just code them in as defaults as I doubt anyone's going to be changing the server url terribly often

[Onionfighter]

I couldn't actually find a run file, so I reinstalled the source. This time, there was a run file, so I was able to log in, but once I select a char it crashes, saying something like :"out of heap memory". Would you like me to PM you the full error?

[theTrav]

Possibly your JVM is configured to run with a small heap.
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=424214

where -Xms<size> specifies the initial Java heap size and -Xmx<size> the maximum Java heap size.

so edit the batch file to have -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m right after java.

If that's not enough, make the number bigger but if the client is sucking up more than a gig of memory then something is up.